TAKING THE RAIN
TAKING THE RAIN Dazzling in the dim rain a pariah kite perched as usual on a tall telephone tower, hoists its grey wings like sails as if sailing in the wind taking the rain, then arches its plumage as if ready to lift—taking the rain, holding at bay the big surge to be air-borne, taking […]
REFUSAL TO MOURN THE ABOLITION OF PIGEON-FEEDING SPOTS IN MUMBAI
REFUSAL TO MOURN THE ABOLITION OF PIGEON-FEEDING SPOTS IN MUMBAI Then die. Amidst manic laughter. What good are you, anyway? What good….. You are no more carriers of news– amatory or military. Without your wings news now flies globally in nanoseconds. Hooray for the digital age! Besides, you eject a fat lot of toxic shit, […]
PADMA
PADMA Now only pictures and legends remain in books and Google, may be. Fondly christened Padma, Rabindranath Tagore’s houseboat or bajra would now rest on its laurels, well over a century old, if there were a museum to keep it. Quietly, meticulously shaped out of expensive mahogany into a river-faring houseboat complete with cabins, upper […]